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UK-Leeds: adult and other education services

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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   LEEDS
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:159321-2009
Publication Date:   Jun 25, 2010
Deadline:   Jun 30, 2009
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 110/2009, #159321-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Jun 18, 2009


Notice Type: 8098 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 115/2009, #165412-2009
Referenced Document Number: 159321-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Jun 25, 2010


Notice type: 013EC - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 121/2010, #182276-2010
Referenced Document Number: 159321-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Original Text

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Department for Work and
Pensions, Commercial Employment Provision Sourcing Team GS25 Quarry House
Quarry Hill, Contact: CEP Sourcing, Attn: Mrs D Pygott, UK-Leeds LS2 7UA.
Tel. +44 1132519771. E-mail: debbie.pygott@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dwp.gov.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact
point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned
contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
Social protection.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Flexible New Deal - Phase 2.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 24.
Main place of performance: Highlands, Islands, Clyde Coast and Grampian;
Forth Valley, Fife and Tayside;
Cumbria and Lancashire;
Cheshire and Warrington;
North and North East London (Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge
only);
Glasgow;
Northumbria and Gateshead/South Tyne and Wear Valley;
Halton and Merseyside;
West Yorkshire;
Essex/Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire;
Dorset and Somerset/Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Swindon/West of
England;
Olympic Host Boroughs and City of London;
West London (Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow
only);
South London (Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lewisham, Merton,
Richmond upon Thames, Sutton only).
NUTS code: UK.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): A new four
stage Jobseeker’s Regime is being introduced across Great Britain.
Flexible New Deal will replace the current mandatory New Deals, including
Private Sector Led New Deals and Employment Zones. Jobcentre Plus will
deliver stages one to three of the Jobseeker’s Regime for all new
Jobseeker’s Allowance customers. Customers who have not secured
sustainable employment during the first three stages of the new
Jobseeker’s Regime will enter stage four, a supplier-led Flexible New
Deal.
Implementation of Flexible New Deal is being delivered over two phases.
Phase 1 will commence from October 2009 and is already at the contract
award stage. This competition focuses only on suppliers who wish to
deliver Phase 2 of the Flexible New Deal from October 2010. Organisations
from the public, private and third sector are being invited to bid to
deliver the fourth stage, offering a more personalized, flexible and
innovative package of support to help customers find and sustain
employment. Stage four, will last for up to 12 months for each participant
and will include a minimum four-week period of mandatory, full-time
activity for customers.
For the procurement of Flexible New Deal Phase 2, the recommended approach
in the 14 contract package areas is that DWP will let contracts with one
or two prime contractors in each area. DWP will enter into contracts with
single lead entities who will deliver Flexible New Deal in one of the
following ways:
— Direct delivery of a proportion of the provision and subcontracting of
the remaining provision to other organisations; or,
— Sub-contracting of the entire provision to other organisations; or,
— Direct delivery by one organisation.
DWP has no preference for any of these options and all bids will be
considered on their merits. However, due to the size and complexity of
contracts to be awarded, it is unlikely that any single organisation could
deliver Flexible New Deal as a sole deliverer. Where organisations intend
to bid as a consortium, they may nominate a lead organisation who will act
as the prime supplier (with the other organisations as sub-contractors) or
they may set up a new legal entity such as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
to bid for the contracts.
Information on expected volumes is provided in the Provision Specification
on the Supplying DWP website as a guide only. Due to the nature of the
services to be provided and the current economic uncertainty, volumes are
likely to change both in the short term and throughout the duration of the
contract. Close working and an iterative dialogue will be required
throughout the procurement process to ensure that customer needs continue
to be met.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 80400000, 75200000,
75300000, 75310000, 79611000, 79634000, 80420000, 80500000, 85300000,
80510000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: DWP is seeking prices for a number of
contracts across 14 geographical areas.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 60 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: Parent company guarantees,
performance bonds or deposits may be required in appropriate
circumstances.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See tender
documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: No special legal form is required, but
each service provider will be required to become jointly and severally
responsible for the contract.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Any Supplier
may be disqualified if any of the circumstances listed in Article 45 of
the Public Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC (Regulation 23 of the UK
Public Contracts Regulations 2006) apply to their organisation. Suppliers
will be asked to complete an appropriate declaration, which will be
provided at a later stage.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: A questionnaire will be
issued to suppliers who respond to this Notice to request details of their
economic and financial capacity.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
A questionnaire will be issued to suppliers who respond to this Notice to
request details of their technical capacity.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Objective criteria for choosing the limited
number of candidates: An assessment of the suppliers’ capability and
capacity to deliver the services required will be made based on the
responses given in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. Further details on
the evaluation criteria are provided in the ‘Instructions to Bidders’
document which accompanies the PQQ.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
26.6.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: No.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Flexible New Deal – Phase 2 will be
procured using a 2 stage tendering approach. For the first stage of the
process, bidders will complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
Bidders successful at this stage will then be invited to submit a tender
for the second phase.
Interested organisations wishing to tender are invited to visit the
Supplying DWP website via the link below to view the specification and
submit an expression of interest no later than Friday 26.6.2009 (12:00).
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/supplyingdwp/what_we_buy/
opportunities_to_tender.asp.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: This authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day
standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is
communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to
seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract
is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from notification of the
award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has
to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill
period. Such additional information should be requested from the officer
named in section I.1 of this contract notice or in the letter / e-mail
providing the information about contract award if different. If an appeal
regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the
Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved
parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the
rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3
months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order
the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend
any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into
the court may only award damages. The purpose of the standstill period
referred to above is to allow parties to apply to the Courts to set aside
the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 10.6.2009.


Department for Work and Pensions, Commercial Employment Provision Sourcing
Team GS25 Quarry House Quarry Hill, CEP Sourcing, attn: Mrs D Pygott,
UK-LS2 7UA Leeds. Tel. +44 1132519771. E-mail:
debbie.pygott@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 11.6.2009,
2009/S 110-159321)
RE: CPV: 80400000, 75200000, 75300000, 75310000, 79611000, 79634000,
80420000, 80500000, 85300000, 80510000.
Adult and other education services.
Provision of services to the community.
Compulsory social security services.
Instead of: IV.3.4): 26.6.2009 (12:00).
Read: IV.3.4): 30.6.2009 (12:00).


Department for Work and Pensions, Commercial Employment Provision Sourcing
Team GS25 Quarry House Quarry Hill, CEP Sourcing, attn: Mrs D Pygott,
UNITED KINGDOM-LS2 7UALeeds. Tel. +44 1132519771. E-mail:
debbie.pygott@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 11.6.2009,
2009/S 110-159321)Incomplete procedureThe awarding procedure has been
discontinued.
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